April has arrived!

And so we continue our look into maps and their design elements.

Today let's look some more into color:
Color is both empowering and overwhelming. It can transform a map in a fantastic way and it can also kill a map. Knowing how to use color is key.
The most popular cartographic color site is Cindy Brewer's ColorBrewer (catchy name, huh?). It is such a simple, easy to use starting point that I know direct all of my new map makers to the site to start their color journey.
The colourlovers blog is a great resource and just interesting to look through.
Kuler is an Adobe applet that is very handy as well.